Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
FASHIONABLE OR OTHER WISE.

LOU N1heNOO1 duO OUnCA 1888 pAO
nounced shapes, are trimmed with
lace and frequently covered with it.
THE enr'a cte cane is q Partisan nov
city lately brought over. The usual
silver handle is removable, like the
business end OF the stylograph, and
the cane may be entirely filled with
nourishment, according to taste.
THE mantelet visite has the advan-
tage of being becoming and suitable
for both large and small PERSONS. 1t
is very short and the back sets well
into the waist, which has the desir-
able effect of narrowing the form.
BRAIDING is always much used in the
spring and autumn; it forms q very
pretty trimming when there is not too
much of it. Some vests and aprons
are very effective with this braiding
sewed on without any special design.
A NOVELTY in bonnets is a small
capote, covered with gilt tissue and
without strings. Another bonnet is
covered with puffings Of gilt tulle and
surrounded by a. garland of butter
flies wings. These bonnets are; of
course, only suitable for carriage and
visiting.
A NOVEL material for tea gowns is
new make of Chinese washing silk,
called "sunshiny," which though thin
almost to transparency, is very firm
and durable. It falls in naturally
graceful folds, and is boon to stout
women, as it is cool, clinging and very
flexible, and therefore easy to adjust.
Tiny squares of batiste, foulard,
surah, and even Of tulle, bordered in
fancy colors and lace, and en-
broidered in colored delicate designs
Of leaves, flowers, bees, birds and
butterflies do duty as handkerchiefs,
more for ornament than use, as they
are never removed from the tiny
pocket of the paletot Or jacket or the
front of the waistcoat or bodice.
TRANSPARENT Spanish grenadine, so
light as to show the shoulders and
arms through it's meshes, is g. beauti-
full fabric which is made into hot
weather gowns. The bodices of these
dresses are high at the throat, with
sharp points front and back. They
are made over low-neck underwaists
of American surah, this firm material
being equal to the natural tension OF
q glove-ftting bodice.
CHILDREN hats are in all kinds OF
straw, the prevailing colors being
MANILA and tobacco brown. They
are trimmed with white or very light
colors. The hats have brims which
are deep in front only, or are broad
all around and taken up on one side,
against the crown. Capelines of Flor
ence straw will be worn. Young girls
and children will look equally we'll
with these hats, which have brims
raised mere and there under bands OF
ribbons.
SUNsHADEs are made as they were
last year, OF light summer fabrics such
as foulards, with designs, batiste, sat-
met, etc. The more dressy styles are
of light silks, Pekin tussore, pongee,
brocatelle, and MORE under lace. Very
elegant sunshades are covered with
embroidered tulle, Spanish blondelace,
black "point de Calais" Chantilly
laces, Lyons lace Of very fine silk,
and variety of light transparent
tissues. 1t would be impossible to
name all the fancy materials used for
this purpose.
The fashion for partly-open bodices
has created a demand for vests, tuck
ers, chemisettes, guimpes, and old
fashioned stomachers of every sort.
Among the elegancies in this line are
exhibited guimpes of black chantilly
and thread-patterned lace, with alter
mating stripes of bead-wrought tulle,
costly and beautiful plastrons and
gilets, reaching the entire front of the
bodice. made Of soft, Victoria silk
handsomely embroidered in shaded
silks the tiny buds and leaves out
lined with small Roman and pink
pearl beads.
SOME very chic and dressy toilets
for watering place wear are exhibited,
made OF the new stripesin canvas and
velvet, with elegantly fitted and
draped French polonaise above, made
OF the finest canvas goods, as delicate
as yelling or nuns cloth. These goods
are figured with small flowers or dots
in silk embroidery, matching one of
the colOrs In the striped material. A
number of these new patterns have
the figures on q large scale, but they
are not as generally popular as the
smaller designs, though they are fire.
quently chosen by those who like
them for fancy garden party and house
dresses.
The ''Pilgrim" style of dress changed
in some ways, yet keeping it's dis
tinctive points, remains in particular
favor still with class of fashionable
young women who affect severe styles
in dress. The Pilgrim costume, with it's
graceful hood at the back, is now
tailor-made, and is therefore at it's
best in fit and drapery. The many
shades OF gray and beige nowin vogue,
as well as numerous other refined
neutral tints in surah, cashmere,
foulard, nuns cloth, and camels' hair,
are particularly adapted to this
Puritancal style of dress, which is
more charming, very often, than the
most elaborate toilet could possibly